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On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. "Stoicism and Emotion" shows that they did not simply advocateā¦
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I first got into Stoicism the way most people do: to feel better and get control over my emotions. But after I studied and practiced it more, I realized that I got into it for the wrong reasons! Stoicismās goal isnāt to get control over emotions per se, but to eliminate a subset of themāthe passionsābecause they stem from false beliefs. And you canāt control them; according to Stoic theory, once you let the passions arise by agreeing with the false underlying beliefs, they control you. Graverās book was pivotal for my understanding of theā¦
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